Bracelet.



PATENTBD AUG. 25, i903.

S. 0. BIGNBY.v

BRACELET.

APPLioATIoN FILED MAY 12. 1903.

H0 MODEL.

MTA/5555.5,

LII

No. 737,064. l

' UNITED STATES 'Patented August 25, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

BRACELET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,064, dated August 25, 1903.

Application led May 12,1903. Serial No. 156,737. (No model.)

l zen of the United States, residin g at Attleboro,

in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use- -ful Improvements in Bracelets, of which the following is a speciication, reference being had therein to the. accompanying drawings.

My invention relates particularly to chain bracelets provided with cygnets or ornamented tops and is applicable to either curbed or' plain links. A

It has been an insuperable defectin bracelets heretofore produced that top,which bears the most ornate ornamentation, when applied to the wrist slides to one side or completelyT below the latter, entirely obscuring the portion best adapted for display. It is to obviate this defect primarily and V,to aord an improved fastening means that my invention is primarily directed; and said invention consists in the novel construction andcombination of parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new bracelet in open or disengaged position; Fig. 2, a central vertical section of Vthe upper half of the same in clasped or engaged position; Fig. 3, a top plan view of the clasp members disengaged, and Fig. 4 a like view ofthe snap and a horizontal section of the box in engaged position. n

Like reference-letters indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings, which illustrate my invention as embodied in a curbed chain bracelet,

'c represents the bracelet body-section, comand a b are located, preferably, on either side above the swelled portion of the bracelet. The result of this structure is that a partially elliptical main portion is produced, together with wings d d', connected to the ends thereof by two hinges formed by loosely-interlock-ed links. Upon the extremity of one wing d is soldered a snap A, consisting of a thin body portion with integral rearwardly-directed flat spring-arms f, terminating in hemispherical stops g. Adjacent the stops the exterior edges of the arms are slotted, h, to engage the inturned margin m of an ornamented fiat box or socket c', whose upper surface bears the ornamentation and which is soldered to the extremityof the other wing d. The clasp thus formed consists of sections or elements rigidly attached to the wings,fand when the parts are connected a comparatively rigid bracelet is obtained that will always maintain its shape. The bracelet when ready for application presents the form shown in Fig. 1. portion nc after application to thewrist being rigid, assists the wearer with her disengaged hand to swing the wings cl el toward Veach other and insert the snap A into the box t'.

Having described my invention, what I Vclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 1. In a bracelet, the combination with a curved substantially rigid main portion comprising links secured together, of wings comprising links secured together, loosely-interlocked links rigidly attached respectively to the ends of the main portion and of the wings and constituting hinge connections between the same, and means forsecuring the free ends of the wingsk together. l Y

2. In a bracelet, the combination with a curved substantiallyrigidmain portion comprisin g links soldered together, of wings comprising links soldered together, loosely-interlocked links rigidly attached respectively to the ends of the main portion and of the wings and constituting hinge connections between The bodyA looked portions soldered together, of Curved free ends of the Wings to secure the saine tosnbstatntially` rigid `WingsAV Comprising links gether. Y to having their interloolied portions soldered to- In testimony whereof I have affixed my sggether, loosely-interlooked links rigidly atnature in presence of two Witnesses.

5 taohed respectively to the ends of the main SIDNEY O. IHGNEY.

portion and of the Wings and constituting Vitnesses: hinge Connections bet-Weeny the sinne, and eo- EDITH C. PIK-E,

noting clasp elements rigidly attached to the y IDA Il. SHORT. 

